Hip-Hop and Urban music emerged in the late '70s, and their histories have often been intertwined. Urban Soul grew out of the smooth stylings of Philly Soul and the slick dance of disco. Urban owed as much (if not more) to mainstream pop as it did to classic soul, and with its layers of synthesizers, slick production and reliance on ballads, Urban Soul rarely sounded like soul. It did sound like pop, which is one of the reasons why it became the dominant African-American music genre in the '80s. Some musicians, such as Michael Jackson and Prince, enlivened the genre by turning conventions on their ear, but most Urban artists simply followed the conventions, both for better (Luther Vandross) or for wodivse.

DJ Pappaling's Hip Hop Internet Radio Picks
• 2 live crew- me so horny
• bobby brown- my perrogative
• digital underground- the humpty dance
• dj jazzy jeff and the fresh prince- parents just don't understand
• lisa lisa and the cult jam- let the music play
• LL cool J- going back to cali
• mc hammer- you can't touch this
• new edition- candy girl
• rob base and dj easy rock- it takes two
• technotronic- pump up the jam
• tigra and bunny- we like the cars that go boom
• tone loc- wild thing
• young mc- bust a move
• kriss kross- jump
• salt and peppa- push it
• biz markie- just a friend
• gap band- you dropped the bomb on me
• cameo- word up
• fat boys- fat boys
• newcleus- jam on it